Emphasis should, I feel, be placed on a number of elements covered during the European Parliament's debate on the draft Constitution (amply summarised in yesterday's bulletin, pages 5 to 7, and in the following pages of today's issue). They are:
1. The solemn nature of the appeal made by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing not to change the Convention's draft. VGE has, quite naturally, been stating since July this year that we should not move away from the current text. But he expressed this view...